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Whether you match cabinets and baseboard trim depends on what your goal is; painting the two elements the same can unify a room or provide an unwelcome distraction. Your decision needs to be based on your color scheme, intended design and what you want the focal points in the room to be.

Working Together

With a high-key, monochromatic room, it’s a plus to paint cabinets and baseboards the same color to unify the space. Here, cabinets and trim are part of an overall design rather than a central focus. Using the same color for cabinets and trim can provide a compelling design element while setting off other features in a room; glistening white cabinets and baseboards contrast sparkling mint green or robin’s-egg-blue walls for a beach or country cottage look, or can set off light-yellow walls for a sunlit feel; pairing muted blue or green cabinets and trim with the same yellow walls lend the room an Early American look.

Fighting the Flow

Same-color cabinets and baseboard trim may divide the focus, particularly when there’s a lot of contrast with the wall color. Medium-brown baseboards may be too prominent in a room with plain white walls and combined with cabinets of the same color, result in a cut-up, “gingerbread” look. In a room where cabinets are a prominent design element, paint the baseboards the same color as the walls, allowing them to blend into the room’s color scheme, rather than matching the cabinets.

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